Kitchen Gardens & Food Security
Climate-smart gardens for coastal fishing families. Reducing dependence on overexploited fish stocks while strengthening household nutrition and resilience across Kilifi County.
On Kenya's coast, food security and ocean health are the same problem. When fish stocks decline, fishing families turn to more intensive harvesting - accelerating the collapse. Kitchen gardens break this cycle by providing alternative food sources and income, reducing pressure on the reef.
Oceans Alive's Kitchen Gardens & Food Security programme establishes climate-smart kitchen gardens for coastal fishing families across Kilifi County. Women who lead the gardens gain income from selling surplus produce, reducing their households' dependence on overexploited fish stocks.
The programme is intentionally integrated with LIFT Network, Trash4Cash, and the coral restoration work - because a community that has food security is a community that can afford to let the reef recover.
Programme
Kitchen Gardens & Food Security
Food Security · Programme 11
Kitchen garden produce - nutrition, income, and reduced pressure on the reef
“When the family has food from the garden, the father does not have to take every fish from the sea.”
- Kitchen garden participant, Kilifi
Connected Work
Related Programmes
Trash4Cash
Women's groups collect and sort plastic waste, selling to certified recyclers. Turning ocean pollution into household income and clean coastlines. 120 women, 2+ tonnes of plastic monthly.
LIFT Network
Women's livelihoods, financial independence and eco-entrepreneurship. Building resilient coastal communities from the ground up through women's economic agency and conservation leadership.
Community Health & Wellbeing
Holistic programmes that link ocean health directly to community health - because the wellbeing of Kilifi's people and the health of its waters are inseparable.
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